My Life, Today
The warmth
of a touch,
a kiss, a look,
the feeling of you inside me,
the sun’s caress,
the physical jolt of music.
Overwhelming beauty:
words, lyrics, sentences,
irony.
The day
opening and closing.
Everything I know new,
intriguing,
clean,
even when it’s exactly the same
as it always is.
We listen to The Velvet Underground –
Lou Reed, John Cale, Nico,
others whose names I can’t remember.
I’m always thrilled
by sight sound touch,
your searching hands on my smooth skin,
but no longer
is everything weighted
by desperate panic, melancholy, nostalgia,
moments long since past –
things I can no longer have or change.
But right here, right now,
it is enough,
almost way too much at times,
and I am
in love with it.
copyright 2006 Katherine Andrews
